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Family Resources

Guide By Your Side

Guide By Your Side (GBYS) was created by Hands & Voices TM. Their parent guides are all parents of a child with hearing loss. The trained guides provide unbiased information about communication options, help families navigate through the system, link families with local and national parent-to-parent resources and assist families with advocating for their child in health care and school settings. Most importantly, GBYS encourages families, offering hope and the tools to fulfill the dreams they have for their children.

Hands and Voices

Hands & Voices is dedicated to supporting families by providing non-biased information about communication options and access to services and education. They strive to empower deaf, hard of hearing and deaf-blind children in Washington to reach all of their future goals.

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People (ages 4 and up) who are deaf, hard of hearing, deaf-blind, or speech disabled; and live in Washington State are eligible to apply for services. The cost of equipment is based on a sliding fee scale which uses the client’s annual income and family size to determine if there is a cost to the client or not. Many of our clients receive the equipment at no cost.

For further information see: https://www.dshs.wa.gov/altsa/odhh/telecommunication-equipment-distribution.